The Chandler School kids had a good day at the track and extend their thanks to all that visited the hot chocolate stand and generously donated to the program. I had fun during my striating stint in Rat and coaching a few of our other guys, Overall tough weekend as one car spun and nailed our other car, both continued after some fender adjustments, until well into the race. Ultimately Rat decide to spit out the motor oil, fortunately noticed by the driver, so we think the motor will have survived. And Gator thought 4th & 5th were not appropriate for use in the dark...the kids now have a bit of unplanned maintenance to complete! As always many thank to the Champ staff and track workers.
Ken

For those coming to Road Atlanta, should you happen to have old brake rotors laying about that you are not going to use, The Chandler School would be happy to have them. Old rotors form the bases of the Sportsmanship award trophies the school creates. We could use a couple of dozen. SO if you happen to have some, swing by wherever we end up in the paddock, drop them off and meet the kids. See you at Road Atlanta.
Ken

Not at all, we were on latest edition of Rival S. For full disclosure, I work for Michelin/BFGoodrich motorsports...
Of course other folks results vary as function of tracks, cars, driving style, etc. etc...Depending upon who we have in the Chandler cars the tires may go longer on one car than the other...We had more than 30 race hours on one set between VIR, AMP and a track day at Roebling.
Now had I run those same events with our old SAAB 900, no way the front tires would have gone that distance. The original Piggy was a piggy when it came to eating front tires at many tracks.

Perhaps we are just too slow with the Chandler Miatas but we've had no problems getting a full race weekend out Rival S, 225/45-15. Did the VIR 24 one set per car as well as AMP on a single set. Last time I ran Piggy at Rd All, we did the fully race on a set of 225/45-17 Rival S.

This is certainly debatable. In the 38+ years I've been racing, which includes quite a few monsoon races, with one exception when in a SAAB Quantum Formula S racing with a bunch of vintage cars that had no lights at all, I've never really felt that rain lights needed to be mandated. Certainly not in the many showroom stock, IT, crapcan racer events, including the rains at VIR in 2017. So as far as I'm concerned, normal tail lights are fine. This is amateur racing for fun, not some pro event where drivers must press on. If one's vision is compromised by spray, SLOW down. I certainly did at times in the VIR 24, often because of glare from far too bright, crappy pattern lights on other cars, not due to poor tail lights.
If we want to add more rules, how about mandating high & low beams with half the lights being off on low beam and only properly aimed low beams permitted when closer than 100 feet behind another car or when it is raining heavily. But that is another topic entirely.

Requiring tail lights on in rain/low visibility conditions is fine as virtually every car running here has tail lights in place. Mandating a specific rain light when cars already have tail lights, is an unnecessary, unfunded mandate.

When one of you Miata runners splurges for a set of these fancy Penske shocks, we will happily take your old Bilstein B6/B8 shocks as a donation for one of the Chandler School Miatas that has some brand unknown POS shocks on it. We wouldn't want those old yellow shocks cluttering up your valuable shop/garage shelf space 😉

No it isn't the next covert Piggy project, but our alternate tow vehicle is a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee with the 3.0L Mercedes OM 642 turbo diesel. Any Champers wizards with these? Ours suddenly refused to run and so far I'm striking out on why. Pretty sure it is injection related. So if you happen to have experience with these critters, please PM me.
Ken